Oral Performance and the Veil of Text - Paperbackby Ben F. Van Veen (Author), Arie W. Zwiep (Foreword by) It is common opinion in biblical scholarship that the biblical documents functioned in a sociocultural context dominated by the spoken word. Detextification is the result of addressing the complex relation between this formally acknowledged functioning in its original oral delivery and the daily praxis of biblical scholarship in which these documents function as autonomous texts in an ever